On Tue, 18 Aug 2009, Pavitra wrote: > comex wrote: >> On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 12:22 PM, Roger Hicks<pidge...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Problem: Former players retain their senatorship and thus become >>> voters in an emergency session. >> >> Nope, because Senator is redefined as a subset of first-class >> players... but I think this would actually be a good thing, though >> there might be quorum issues. If invaders have joined the Senate, and >> outnumber the rest-- at least enough so that AI-3 proposals can't be >> passed-- former players could be called back to vote... > > Would they answer the call? I'm inclined to think not.
If you grandfathered in a set of previous hero-level players you might get some response; e.g. Michael is a lurker, there's a few others, if offered a "vote to save Agora" they might drop in a vote. I'm not sure starting the set of permanent defenders with the current set of Senators will gain you anything. Of course, I wouldn't be surprised if any given current set of Senators voted to give themselves permanent power; and how that would probably play out (cynical-speak here) is that would be triggered not for a true emergency, but when a later set of active players wants to take away the deregistered senators' powers, and they come back and fight to keep it. So you end up with an invasion of the old instead of the new...the opposite of what's intended, really. -G.
